I'm trying to set up a puppy install which will run only a CSS capable browser.

I was reading the min specs are 200mhz but would that be enough to run only puppy or firefox or otherwise as well? It will also need to be able to print from the web browser and obviously access the internet (ehternet or wireless).

Thanks for your time, any suggestions on streamlining puppy for just this purpose to get as much speed out of the thing as possible would be greatly appreciated.

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Posted: Wed 24 Aug 2005, 15:46 Post_subject:

The problem you will run into is not so much data transfer speed, as that doesn't require much very much CPU to accomplish.

The bottleneck will be in rendering the transfered data in a GUI browser. Use a fast browser as the best compromise if it the big browsers seem too slow for your liking.

Streamlining Puppy won't help much I don't think. However, you didn't say how much RAM you have. If you don't have sufficent RAM and are running Puppy on a swap file or partition, then maybe some changes are in order.

I tend to agree with a recent post that Opera can be very speedy. Version 5.12 installation, I remember, fits a floppy._________________Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? Get the sfs (English only).

One problem you may run into is the HX and the TX chipset is limited to 64 meg of RAM. I had this problem on an HP machine. I could be wrong but I do believe there is a 64meg bottle neck. The LX, BX and later 810 chipset should be fine, although they stopped making the 200mhz chip by the time the BX chipset was introducted I'm pretty sure.

Just another quick question...If running a comp with no HDD, will I run into problems or will all the essentials load into memory and just not save personal settings?

Thanks again

Twill

You can run Puppy from CD, CD/RW or flash ram devices.
The easiest and most convenient is CD
With no HD you could save to flash or just lose your settings each time you boot . . .
You could of course use the developing Unleashed and Open Sourcer to create your own customised (including settings)